Jumbo Crossword - 152

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

ACROSS:
1 Surprise someone more than he can say? (6,4)
6 Largely empty with old rate for blood fluid (5)
10 Discourteous sailor put out around mid-afternoon (6)
16 I have a turn on stage in "Othello" (4)
18 Dora's about to find the way (4)
19 Card given to deserter turning up (5)
21 Buses and trains (7)
24 Do use car with disastrous results having held drinking-bout (8)
26 Tuck back in fashion with the garment makers (3,5)
27 Island of the Arafura Sea wherein one code of football is promoted (3)
28 It's always used in poetry (3)
30 There used to be a place for the bay here (5)
32 Where our army personnel are trained and somewhat differently too! (3)
33 Where an army establishment can absorb the intake (4)
35 A pal has manuscript with words like UN (8)
37 Possibly payment abroad for making sea trips (8)
38 The chatter of someone fondling a dog (6)
39 Learn about a place near Mumbai? (5)
41 A river in a very picturesque area (3)
42 A poet is quite likely to induce sleep (7)
45 This isn't still a prison (5)
46 One former pupil turning up in the tribe (3)
48 Rule out the alien getting a small ring (7)
50 "Buts" usually accompany them (3)
52 Liberate one soul in torment (7)
53 Strengthens in two twos? (6)
56 Chaps accompanying the shooting party, with whiskers (7)
57 Silly moo landing in planet which may be deadly (8)
59 A pound to provide service cover (3)
62 Eliminate whole ages with one note (5)
64 FedEx competitor's high times (3)
65 He meditates in a mirror (9)
67 Be trying to hear directions (3)
69 Something fragrant returned in the time left (5)
70 A better bed? (5)
71 To seal with wax is insincere (4)
72 Cant live to fight the Spanish (5)
74 Cleared of charges (4)
75 The person pressing for Renoir reproduction (6)
76 Favourite one left (4)
78 Some of the Mounties may apply for release (5)
79 Wrath not entirely commendable, promoting peace (6)
82 Initially, the answer must be looked for in France (4)
84 SD DA totals (4,2)
86 At home with the bowling apparently (3,3)
88 Man of action joins party with hesitation (4)
89 Key worker with real go, perhaps (6)
90 In the Casbah, medical student finds Ben Bella (5)
92 Essayist in hotel, I assume (4)
94 Romance being a matter of business (6)
95 Nothing but a toss-up in old money (4)
96 Some meet hostility with spirit (5)
97 12 in. In this (4)
99 Notices Kerry holding glacial ridge (5)
101 Old and wise American Indian (5)
103 No profit in a transaction in a pub (3)
104 Point out to five how to make good (9)
107 Make lace with ragged look (3)
108 Increase fuss about outskirts of Detroit (3,2)
110 The place that gave us deep dish, years ago. (3)
111 Coin lost, perhaps, but he settles (8)
113 Put a little in the shade by one of the regulars (7)
116 Clown not to return with energy for him (6)
118 Tynesider founds half-sovereign, and rupee next to sink (7)
121 Girl seen in the company of Conan, the Barbarian? (3)
123 A good man helped to put it on the map (7)
125 It's not himself that might eat afterwards because of this (3)
126 Wheat to blame for backward football in backward mud (5)
127 Man or little girl included as tea maker (7)
129 A lot many Romans many can view initially? (3)
131 One's young, one has to meditate (5)
133 Islander in a sort of trance (6)
135 Get rid of Clare struggling out of form (5,3)
138 Satanic food in which there's no good (8)
141 A very dull note for the Yankees to use (4)
142 NZ parson bird accepts Trudie's odds (3)
144 Copper, perhaps, on the road (5)
146 Said only partly by the groom? (1,2)
148 Sound loving when the company comes to nothing (3)
149 Flying is not yet fully developed (2,3,3)
151 Bags of vegetarian Russians? (8)
155 Apply different tests on a hat (7)
156 Kitty's way of saying loudly, "I hurt"? (5)
157 He must be included in the top eleven footballers (4)
158 The Yard always has some (4)
159 Reduce the effect of French and Japanese currency (6)
160 Make a lace for the in-side, to be levied, of course! (3,2)
161 Tabloid's star columnist (10)

DOWN:
2 He wrote about life in the woods. You read mostly inside! (7)
3 Former German chancellor identifies the Knights of Hooligan Licence with black antimony powder (4)
4 Computer used in atomic rocket (5)
5 Sheepish sound of the scholar leading the Americans? (3)
6 Game of some bloody pirates? (3)
7 The partner is a lady (3)
8 He writes about love, dear (4)
9 Tricked at university and brought into court (3,2)
11 Army leaders at Lake Restaurant (9)
12 Extreme words to Brutus brought back the right doctor on the street (9)
13 Strike backing at the normal level (3)
14 Am restarting process to pass from one place to another (12)
15 Note days off and stop (6,2)
17 Breakwater with no grey designs (6)
20 Eccentric old theology master (3)
21 Temporary settlement uses river power (4)
22 Where they don't like the Poms? (9)
23 Just for a moment as of wines (3)
25 In America, the heartless teacher used to be behind the iron curtain (4)
26 Opening for air to return (3)
29 His draws always turn out to be winners (5)
31 Great tax year after new condition (5)
34 Briefly a stone-breaking employee? (5)
35 Shake and find it's a trick. There's nothing inside (6)
36 Company title? (6)
40 Tie up fifty-one (4)
43 Choicest measure in air container (6)
44 Little things to put in a manuscript (5)
47 First Bible suitable for movable type? (9)
49 New look for a composer (7)
51 Five at our embroilment with the shortest priced starter (9)
53 A hill town where speed of progress is restricted (5-2,4)
54 Alien language in religious statement finally off-putting? (4)
55 Alas, the girl returns (3)
56 Big Ben chimes, initially, heard on it? (3)
58 Thought nothing had got wasted (6)
60 Set free to make larger (3,3)
61 Economy tool (3)
63 Place for growing conspiracy among tennis players? (4-4)
65 English politician going round in search of a local farmer? (4)
66 A question of sentry-duty? (6,2,3)
68 I earn a name for a change? (5)
71 Trusted, summoned to admit cardinal (8)
73 Lively instruction to the players (4)
77 Columbus's ship carried Caribbean batter and desert mouse (9)
80 Wasn't any surprise expressed at his craft? (4)
81 Angry about having to go to the other side... (5,4)
83 Indian grub shedding chrysalis finally to emerge in independent state (5)
85 Resort to french wine when given bad hock (6)
87 Available for borrowing at noon. Al, anyway (2,4)
91 Create with some drama kept in abeyance? (4)
93 Support a high peak for one leaving (7)
97 Foreign organization that can twist a lie? (3)
98 Telling about parts of the body that can make music? (5,7)
100 You canonised such an eyesore (4)
102 Such a shame it's returned with a note to the old lady (6)
105 People might be over this in payment (3)
106 Arrest using firm pressure (3)
107 Excavator soon unearths part of the trunk (5)
109 Accomplished torn is round head of class - that's good teaching (9)
111 New course for a man of Daniel Defoe (6)
112 Examine closely for fallen arches (6)
114 Making headlines when I sent the wrong order (2,3,4)
115 Inferior to what I have to weaken (9)
117 Very good turn by doctor on foot (4)
119 Frosted look seen when I'm in debt? (5)
120 Theatre starts when clocks do (4,4)
122 Raise a curve with some measure of skill (5)
124 Stay clear when hungry prima donna returns! (5)
128 These days, evildoing needs counselling (6)
130 Virginia gets animal to depart quickly (7)
132 Short ones are almost even (4)
134 Scientist losing a little weight it could be a sign (4)
136 Not below, but rounder? (3)
137 An aspect of dial time (5)
139 Records a Hungarian composer's heard (5)
140 Leaders of the north and west abandon the snows with a call for help (3)
143 One starting the Universe? (3)
145 She's nothing to get all upset about (4)
147 It's comparatively sound (4)
150 Footwear loses direction when used in the garden (3)
152 Ways to get cross making love (3)
153 Given a stern direction when a measure is found to be short (3)
154 Some take away bird (3)

Aries (Mar 21 - Apr 20)You are likely to remain careful and watchful today, foretells Ganesha. And because you'll be invited to parties and other social events, your enthusiasm will remain buoyant. You will also strike the right balance between business and pleasure, says Ganesha.